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Mirages
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Opera Arias & Songs
Sabine Devieilhe (soprano) & Alexandre Tharaud (piano)
Les Siècles, François-Xavier Roth
Devieilhe’s singing lights up the good, the bad and the music of Ambroise Thomas with her vivid, pure tone and apparently limitless breath. Alexandre Tharaud pops in as a sensitive piano partner;... — More…
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Gens is in fine voice – indeed, she seems to be in her prime. Her diction is as always immaculate and she produces a stream of elegant tone…and the required vocal heft to ride Massenet’s orchestra... — More…
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Elsa Dreisig (soprano), Orchestre national Montpellier Occitanie Pyrénées Méditerranée, Michael Schønwandt
This is [Dreisig’s] debut album and it is phenomenally good. First there is the concept of juxtaposing arias for the same dramatic character by different composers…Next, stylistic variety enables... — More…
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Jean-Efflam Bavouzet plays Ravel, Debussy & Massenet
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Jean-Efflam Bavouzet (piano)
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Yan Pascal Tortelier
[Bavouzet] turns in a performance of the Fantaisie that illuminates this uneven yet magical work like no other. As to the Ravel concertos, I have no hesitation in saying these are the greatest... — More…
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Paris, mon amour
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Sonya Yoncheva (soprano), Etienne Dupuis (baritone), Celso Albelo (tenor)
Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana, Frederic Chaslin
gleaming, virtuoso singing. — More…
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Massenet: Werther
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Rolando Villazon (Werther), Sophie Koch (Charlotte), Audun Iversen (Albert), Eri Nakamura (Sophie), Alain Vernhes (Le Bailli), Stuart Patterson (Schmidt), Darren Jeffrey (Johann), Anna Devin (Käthchen), Zhengzhong Zhou (Brühlmann)
Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden,...
[Villazon] successfully negotiates the exposed or awkward passages. In the bigger singing of the third act...there's a touch of the old, devil-may-care Villazon...Even better is [Koch's Charlotte]...But... — More…
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The French items suit her slightly cool voice better. There’s a classy, moving grandeur to Didon’s ‘Adieu, fière cité’, and a lovely wistfulness to her Mignon…in short, here’s a beautifully regulated... — More…
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Joyce DiDonato: Diva, Divo
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Joyce DiDonato (mezzo)
Orchestre et Choeur de L'Opéra National De Lyon, Kazuko Ono
Proof of DiDonato's consummate musicianship is everywhere here...For sheer beauty of tone, legato that defies gravity and singing that restores your faith in human nature, listen last of all... — More…
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This is the first operatic recital disc of the greatest lyric baritone of our time, indeed one of the greatest of any time. Everything is built… on superb breath control and a remarkable capacity... — More…
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Arias by Gounod and Massenet
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Rolando Villazon (tenor), Natalie Dessay
Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Evelino Pido
This is mostly well-planned and executed recital mixes favourites with extracts from operas that have remained rarities, even with the increased interest in late 19th-century repertory. It begins... — More…